The Epiphany Machine
David Burr Gerrard
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Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.
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Thatâs the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its usersâ forearms. Itâs an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. But, oddly enough, so might the device...
A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowoodâs parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter canât avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machineâs accurate predictions: his motherâs abandonment and his fatherâs disinterest. So when Venterâs grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his familyâs mistakes, heâs only too happy to oblige.
Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the deviceâs sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Thereâs an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam wonât jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police.
It may be a hoax, but that doesnât mean what Adam is selling isnât also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyonâs apparatus may just be right about us all. This is "can't-miss pop culture."(Vox)
*A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The Millions
Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.
Â
Thatâs the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its usersâ forearms. Itâs an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. But, oddly enough, so might the device...
A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowoodâs parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter canât avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machineâs accurate predictions: his motherâs abandonment and his fatherâs disinterest. So when Venterâs grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his familyâs mistakes, heâs only too happy to oblige.
Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the deviceâs sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. Thereâs an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam wonât jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police.
It may be a hoax, but that doesnât mean what Adam is selling isnât also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyonâs apparatus may just be right about us all. This is "can't-miss pop culture."(Vox)
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David Burr Gerrard received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. His first novel, Short Century, was published by Rare Bird Books, and his work has appeared in The Awl, The LA Review of Books, BOMB, Guernica, and other publications. He teaches fiction writing at Manhattanville College, the 92nd Street Y, and the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop.
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